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Ditch dance course, uni performing arts review advises

Ditch dance course, uni performing arts review advises

A dance major at a leading university should be cut, with subjects in dance teaching offered instead, a review has found.

Big Girls Don't Cry: Black joy celebrated in debut play

Big Girls Don't Cry: Black joy celebrated in debut play

Big Girls Don't Cry: Black joy celebrated in debut play

Big Girls Don't Cry: Black joy celebrated in debut play

Inspired by the playwright's grandmother and aunties, Big Girls Don't Cry explores the power of joy amidst the political movements and racism of the 1960s.

Much ado about a can of vodka at Table Top Shakespeare

Much ado about a can of vodka at Table Top Shakespeare

Much ado about a can of vodka at Table Top Shakespeare

Much ado about a can of vodka at Table Top Shakespeare

36 Shakespeare plays in eight days? All the world's a table top, where the players are cans of drink and toilet rolls.

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Tony Award-winning UK actor Joan Plowright dies aged 95

Tony Award-winning UK actor Joan Plowright dies aged 95

Award-winning British stage actor Joan Plowright, the widow of Laurence Olivier, has died

Sex and the city: Indigenous play ready to wow festival

Sex and the city: Indigenous play ready to wow festival

After a successful Melbourne season, the play Jacky - which portrays the reality of city life for Indigenous people - is heading to the Sydney Festival.

With BMX and skating, who says theatre can't be street?

With BMX and skating, who says theatre can't be street?

Performance company Branch Nebula is bringing street skills such as BMX, skating and parkour to the theatre in the upcoming Sydney Festival show, Air Time.

Agency collapse leaves performers in the junkyard

Agency collapse leaves performers in the junkyard

Comedians say they haven't been paid for weeks of gigs following the collapse of Junkyard Artist Management, which represents more than two dozen performers.

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The underground tale of Arts Centre's electric glow-up

The underground tale of Arts Centre's electric glow-up

The underground tale of Arts Centre's electric glow-up

The underground tale of Arts Centre's electric glow-up

One of Australia's biggest performing arts centres is midway through a major renovation. But theatregoers will never see the most vital part of the project.

Arts gift to find the next Jackman, McCune or Minchin

Arts gift to find the next Jackman, McCune or Minchin

Arts gift to find the next Jackman, McCune or Minchin

Arts gift to find the next Jackman, McCune or Minchin

The elite Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts will receive a $30 million donation from the Minderoo Foundation.

Gender-bending Yiddish play comes to Sydney Opera House

Gender-bending Yiddish play comes to Sydney Opera House

Gender-bending Yiddish play comes to Sydney Opera House

Gender-bending Yiddish play comes to Sydney Opera House

As the gender-bending play Yentl has found success onstage, it has had to contend with an intense political environment.

Julian Assange's rollercoaster life coming to the stage

Julian Assange's rollercoaster life coming to the stage

Julian Assange's rollercoaster life coming to the stage

Julian Assange's rollercoaster life coming to the stage

A play about the trials and tribulations of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will headline the Malthouse Theatre's 2025 program while ticket prices are slashed.

Disability-led comedy exacts revenge on special school

Disability-led comedy exacts revenge on special school

Disability-led comedy exacts revenge on special school

Disability-led comedy exacts revenge on special school

Playwright Kath Duncan, who likes to say she escaped from "special school", hopes her play Specials! will add to the debate about segregated education.

Acrobatic hopefuls flip into circus degree restart

Acrobatic hopefuls flip into circus degree restart

Acrobatic hopefuls flip into circus degree restart

Acrobatic hopefuls flip into circus degree restart

Aspiring aerialists are being tested on their backflips and handstands as Australia's only degree in circus starts taking new students again.

Wilde dance a groundbreaking ballet of queer love

Wilde dance a groundbreaking ballet of queer love

Wilde dance a groundbreaking ballet of queer love

Wilde dance a groundbreaking ballet of queer love

With its world premiere of Christopher Wheeldon's Oscar, the Australian Ballet has put queer love into classical dance.

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Rebecca to feature in Melbourne Theatre Company line-up

An adaptation of Rebecca will feature in the Melbourne Theatre Company's 2025 program, of which eight productions are premieres of Australian works.

Sparks fly as monster epic Beowulf makes a fiery return

Actor and Beowulf scholar Felix Nobis returns to his celebrated solo performance of the epic tale Beowulf, staged for the first time in a blacksmith's workshop.

Opera artistic director quits, nine months into the job

Opera Australia artistic director Jo Davies has quit, effective immediately, midway through her inaugural season with the national company.

Moving opera Innocence to headline Adelaide Festival

The contemporary opera Innocence, directed by Australian Simon Stone, will headline the 2025 Adelaide Festival.

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Streetcar is a modern take but keeps to original script

The actors involved in MTC's A Streetcar Named Desire know they have enormous shoes to fill and have risen to the challenge while being sensitive to the theme.

Milestone play a personal win for actor with disability

A prize-winning play brings performers with disability to centre stage in Australian theatre and it's been a long time coming, actor Kate Hood says.

Who's afraid of a 1000-seat theatre? Not Virginia Woolf

Melbourne's Red Stitch Theatre is taking Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? from an 80-seat venue to the 1000-seat Comedy Theatre.

The Highway of Lost Hearts carves a path to the city

Moments of magic realism are woven through Australian play Highway of Lost Hearts, the story of a grieving woman on a solo journey across the outback.

Greek tragedy is child's play for eight-year-old actor

Starring in Medea, Edward Hill acknowledges that juggling two theatre roles with year ten maths isn't exactly normal for an eight-year-old.

Ready for my close up: Sunset Boulevard makes a return

Renowned singer Sarah Brightman makes her return to the theatre with Sunset Boulevard, the first Australian production of the musical in almost 30 years.

Play challenges perceptions of growing up mentally ill

A coming-of-age play exploring the struggles of a mother-daughter relationship navigating mental illness aims to encourage audiences to question their beliefs.

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